About Me
Biography
Robert Accettura is a web developer by day, a Mozilla contributor, self-proclaimed Mac Addict, and Open Source advocate on the side. He is a spring 2006 college graduate with a B.S. in Business Administration. He specialized in Management Information Systems.
Initially starting off as a Mac Shareware developer in 1999, Robert moved into web development a year and a half later and stuck with it ever since. He launched MacVillage.net in the summer of 2000. Since then he went on to open source programming including Mozilla Firefox work, as well as extension development for Mozilla products. He’s still working in web development launching SafePasswd.com in the fall of 2006.
These days Robert’s still obsessed with Apple hardware and software (he even leaves his Mac OS X boxes out on a shelf for viewing), as well as open source software, such as the abundance of code that powers this website.
In his spare time he is a TV addict who has likely seen every episode of most popular US sitcoms and some cartoons. Despite this obsession with television he still doesn’t have a TiVo (thankfully. If he did, he’d never sleep). He’s been known to start quoting sitcoms like Seinfeld in mid conversation as if it were natural.
He also has a love, or as some would call it “obsession” for primates, in particular chimps (for which he gets ridiculed for quite often). Occasionally he travels.
He is currently working for CBS Interactive as a Developer at CBSNews.com. The views expressed in this blog are his alone, and do not represent the views of CBS.
Current Works
Robert’s currently working on many different projects though a few more prominent things stand out:
- SafePasswd.com – Generate safe and secure passwords on the fly.
- MacVillage.net – a Macintosh portal launched in 2000. Currently running on autopilot.
Robert Accettura is also an active Mozilla Contributor, whose claim to fame is hacking up the reporter tool (commonly referred to as “that broken website thing” much to his dismay) both client side, and server. Robert also maintains an extension for synchronizing an Apple iPod to Mozilla Thunderbird, and was ecstatic to make two of the coolest products in the world communicate. He also wrote GeoLocateFox which can lookup a websites location and plot it on a map. Who knows what nerdy project he’ll be involved in next.
Robert also provides some tech support for web hosting clients of BlueVirtual LLC. via support tickets, and the forum which he so diligently monitors.
Sometimes his antics even create some press.
This Blog
Robert maintains this blog as a [semi-]professional outlet for his technical doings, accomplishments, failures and the other random things. He has been doing so since March 2003. For those wondering, wordage is a word.
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Future
Robert is currently at work on new offerings, and hopes to complete them by the end of the decade, though it’s impossible to predict the future. If you have any ideas, contact Robert.
Wish List / Donations For Code / Tools
Information on this topic can be found here.
